This machine is a 1938 International Harvester (IH) Farmall F-20 tractor with a mounted two row IH 2ME ear corn picker attached. While the machine is 76 years old they were still being used in the 1950s, and some even into the 1960s. Now very little ear corn is harvested. It is picked and shelled in one operation by a combine which can harvest eight rows per pass.
Interesting take on summer.
ReplyDeleteAmazing they were used for that many years!
ReplyDeletei like the old timer in the photo!
ReplyDeleteEight rows per pass! No wonder machines like this have been rendered obsolete.
ReplyDeleteJack, that is the standard machine. Special wide heads can be up to 16 rows per pass.
DeleteYou could purchase a lightly used 16 row corn head, 30 feet wide, for only $130,000 to $160,000. New ones are more. That does NOT include the combine to run it.
ReplyDeleteThat's quite a machine!
ReplyDeleteAn impressive machine, I like the way you showed it to us!
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